2 OCTOBER 1920, page 20

Some Books Of' The Week.

[Notice U. tats column does not necessarily preclude ramsgenl review.] Canon Temple is editing a new quarterly " review of Christian politics and religion " entitled The Pilgrim......

Luduig Holberg. By S. C. Hammer. (oxford : Blackwell. 2s.

net.)—Mr. Hammer's interesting address, delivered at Magdalen College, Oxford, last year, emphasized the fact that Holberg, the Norwegian contemporary of Swift and Pope, was a......

English Synonymes. By George Crabb. (routledge. Gs. Net.)...

his well-known book in 1816. Some unnamed editor, apparently an American, has prepared this " centennial edition," containing many additional terms and cross references. While......

Poets And Poetry.

MR. HERBERT ASQUITH'S NEW VERtE.t MR. HERBERT ASQUITH is the sort of poet to whom we look for renewed confirmation of our original opinion—i.e., that he is e • Verona in the......

3azzini's Letters To An English Family, 1844-1854. Edited...

F. Richards. (J. Lane. 16s. net.)—These familiar letters to his friends the Ashursts—especially to Emily Ashurst, Signora Venturi, who devoted her life to the cause of " Young......

In The Interesting Series Of Texts For Students The Society

for Promoting Christian Knowledge has just published two little books of Select Extracts Illustrating Florentine Life, from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century (Is. net......